“LAGOS IS A NO MAN’S LAND”— A Weaponized Ignorance against the Igbo by Native Yoruba Strangers of Lagos State

Nwankwo T Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD
Odogwu of Ibusa Clan & Combatant Political Historian
Research Fellow@Exile, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Email: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com

“In the midst of battle, while we are all of us in fighting mood, we see only the sins of the enemy and fail to reflect on those predicaments and dilemmas which so often develop and which underlay the great conflicts between masses of human beings.”

With these words Herbert Butterfield appears to underscore the squalid sense of commission of those inchoate-minded Yoruba ethnic bandits cum vicious Igbo-haters who bandy around the delusive contraption that the Igbo said “Lagos is a no man’s land.”

One of the disposable political lackeys and crumb-pickers of Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu called Lekan Sote writing for the Punch newspaper issue of March 15, 2023 under the title: “The Igbo Question in Lagos stated the following words in his provocative ignorance:

“The provocative claim by some Nigerians, of Igbo extraction, that Lagos is a no-man’s land riles the Yoruba, who are the first settlers in Lagos. Some Igbo, probably in retaliation for the hostility demonstrated against them by their Yoruba compatriots, during the recently concluded presidential election, employed rather violent words in return. The Yoruba became even more anxious when Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, defeated the godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who won the presidency almost by a whisker.”

I waited so long as I did to respond to such malicious fabrication borne out of sacramental political rejection among one’s people not because I had nothing to say to such intellectual homunculus and addle-brained political idiots like Lekan Sote but because I had expected my urbane brother-Yoruba professional historians whom I respect so much to intervene with incisive intellectual historicism.

Of course there is no gainsaying the fact that the Yoruba ethnic nation parades, more than any other ethnic nation in Nigeria, a timeless legion of astute professional historians with unrivalled intellectual marksmanship. But as the 18th century Anglo-Irish thinker Edmund Burke put it:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Evil is triumphing in Lagos State today because the good men of Yoruba nation are doing nothing. It is therefore a bizarre sight to behold when the most intellectually sophisticated ethnic nation in Nigeria allows itself to be politically driven by a band of misanthropic philistine political bandits.
It is instructive to note that the politics of exclusion in Lagos State does not rest on Igbo presence and the matter of Lagos as a no man’s land alone. It includes the perennial opposition of the indigenous settlers of Lagos against the native Yoruba strangers who now dominate them politically. In their struggles against the dominance of these native Yoruba strangers in Lagos, the former have always looked upon the Igbo stranger elements as their trusted allies. This is the second and invariably more potent arm of the present anti-Igbo syndrome in Lagos State.

Talking about the history of Lagos and the sophistry of “Lagos is a no man’s land”, the question is what level of intelligence and knowledge of history does the likes of Lekan Sote, a native Yoruba stranger in Lagos State from Oyo State scavenging for economic survival; Oba Rilwan Akiolu, a Policeman whose entire career was tainted with bribery, corruption, and lack of diligent moral judgment and, who traces his origin to Benin and had earlier claimed that Lagos does not belong to the Yoruba; Yekini Amoda Ogunlere a. k. a Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a man of questionable identity and dishonourable origin whose grandfather emigrated from Borgu in Nupe land; Femi Fani-Kayode, a descendant of a liberated Sierra Leonean Nupe ex-slave adopted into Ile-Ife by the act of Bishop Ajayi Crowther’s magnanimity; Bayo Onanuga, a descendant of an escapee Nupe slave freed and adopted by the Onanuga family of Ijebu Ode and, who has never excelled in his journalism career; and Segun Agbaje, the leprous INEC evil courier and boorish Iseyin gringo claiming Lagos origin but in truth whose grandfather Salami Agbaje, born around 1880 and whose mother was from Ibadan, was the son of an escapee slave from Iseyin in the present Oyo State?

I want to emphatically state with an element of historical precision that the use of the phrase: “Lagos is a no man’s land” did not either originate from the Igbo or was the context meant to deride or question the right of Lagos indigenes over their ancestral homeland. Those who are conversant with the political history of Lagos will never, in their sublime sense of historical judgment accept such devious contraption.”

I want to state it for the records and I want any professional Yoruba historians conversant with the political history of Nigeria to challenge me, that the phrase “Lagos is a no man’s land” was first applied by Governor Arthur Richards in 1947 when the Northern Delegates of the Nigerian Legislative Council led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa protested the status of Lagos as the Capital of Nigeria during the First Session of the Legislative Council held on March 24, 1947; which was indeed the first time Northern and Southern political leaders met on one political platform as members of one nation.

In fact the debate over the use of Lagos as the seat of the Legislative Council was so heated that Abubakar Tafawa Balewa concluded in the following threatening notes:

“We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. We do not want independence and we shall fight for it if necessary, but I should like to make it clear to you that if the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage the Northern people would continue their interrupted conquest to the sea.”
It was indeed at that point that Aja Wachukwu stood up and supported Governor Arthur Richards’ position that Lagos should be regarded as a no man’s land, and not part of Southern Provinces. Yet Aja Wachukwu’s intervention did not stop the Northern delegates from cajoling Governor Arthur Richards into annulling Lagos as the permanent seat of the Legislative Council of Nigeria and consequently adopted rotational seating venues. This was the reason why the Second Session of the Legislative Council of March 23, 1948 was held in Kaduna.

I refer these ignoramuses to the British Intelligence Report CO583/287/5, no 12 A [Political Development]: Note by H. M. Foot on the Kaduna Legislative Council, 30 May, 1948; which reads inter alia:

“The Legislative Council met on the morning of 23rd of March at Kaduna. This was the first time that the Council had met outside Lagos under the arrangement whereby the annual budget session of the Council is to take place in the Regional headquarters in rotation. Next year it will meet at Ibadan, in 1950 in Enugu and in 1951 in Lagos.”
Apart from the divestment of Lagos as the permanent seat of the Legislative Council of Nigeria, Governor Arthur Richards further promised the Northern Fulani leaders that so long as the British remained in Nigeria, they would have a Northern administrator in charge of Lagos. This again explains why successive Ministers of Lagos Affairs were Fulani—Muhammadu Ribadu and Mallam Musa Yar’Adua. Ironically, the first Yoruba-born administrator of Lagos Federal Territory Major Mobolaji Johnson was appointed by the Igbo-born Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi.

Beyond the foregoing narratives, the term “Lagos is a no man’s land” had been freely used by prominent Yoruba indigenes to describe the cosmopolitan character of Lagos State; yet there was no contemptible reaction from the likes of the present Islamic Yoruba political bandits. In his acceptance speech as the first democratically elected Governor of Lagos State in 1979, Alhaji Lateef Jakande applied the same metaphor of Lagos as a no man’s land without relating it to the Igbo in any manner.
Similarly, Prof Wole Soyinka in his article titled “Unshakeable City” in 2017 employed the same term to describe his perception of the historical development of Lagos from a rugged cosmopolitan city in his childhood days to its present status of a State. Yet even in his response to Prof Wole Soyinka over the statement in an exclusive interview with Punch newspaper issue of November 26, 2017, the respected native of Lagos Chief Musliu Anibaba did not make any reference to the Igbo.

The question here is based on moral judgment, should it have been right to condemn Aja Wachukwu or applaud him for his role in supporting the Governor’s position on the status of Lagos as a no man’s land? This question is particularly thrown to the likes Oba Rilwan Akiolu, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Femi Fani-Kayode, Bayo Onanuga, Segun Agbaje and Lekan Sote. I invite them to tell Nigerians their own detailed version of the metaphor “Lagos is a no man’s land” for posterity to judge between them and the Igbo.

On the matter of indigenous Lagosians’ resistance against their domination by the native Yoruba strangers, anyone conversant with the political development of Lagos will agree with me that right from the period of constitutional reforms under British Colonial administration to the end of First Republic in 1966, the people of Lagos Federal Territory had always remained allies of the Igbo residents in Lagos. This further explains why they vehemently opposed the inclusion of Lagos to Western Region.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo had always respected this fact and that was the reason he advised prominent native Yoruba strangers of Lagos to go back to their home bases to seek political relevance. An example in this regard was Chief Bode Thomas who returned to Oyo where he was immediately given the title of Balogun of Oyo. Indeed to Chief Obafemi Awolowo as James S. Coleman put it, Lagos “was a cesspool of intrigue, petty bickering, and confusion.”
To Chief H. O. Davis however, Lagos should remain the symbol of the Nigerian nation without attempts to compromise its national character by introducing exclusive Yoruba ethnic politics. In fact, this was one of the reasons of the periodic disagreements between H. O. Davies and Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the embryonic stages of Egbe Omo Oduduwa and Action Group.

In February 1950 Chief Davies resigned from Nigerian Youth Movement over the organization’s support for the inclusion of Lagos in Western Region. Going by the minutes of the inaugural meeting of Action Group in Ibadan on March 26, 1950, the fear of the indigenes of Lagos over their political domination by native Yoruba strangers of Lagos led the organization to avoid any deliberation on the status of Lagos. This was again reiterated during the third meeting of the Action Group in Ibadan on June 4, 1950 as recorded in its minutes of meeting.
It is therefore important to conclude that the current APC-led anti-Igbo hostility in Lagos State goes beyond the orchestrated accusation of the Igbo saying that Lagos is a no man’s land. Of course no sane Nigerian will agree that in a Lagos State where even street boys and motor park miscreants could demand commissions on any landed property purchased by an Igbo man without being the agent, the same Igbo will come out to say that Lagos is a no man’s land. I might not be believed, but the truth of the matter is that Fulani jihad is under way.

It takes the heinous demobilization of the Igbo in Lagos State to pave way for a smooth ride over the entire Yoruba Christian faithful. Let Yoruba Christians find out how many Christians are among this notorious anti-Igbo NASFAT vanguard? I have associated with the Yoruba from revolutionary angle and I can rightly say that it will be difficult for a Yoruba born of Christian parents to set fire on the property of another fellow human being. It takes a Muslim indoctrinated with the heinous pill of jihad to do so in Lagos State. At any rate, no amount of destruction of Igbo property in Lagos State will surpass what they passed through in the civil war. I leave it to posterity to judge

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4 years later , African Union has remembered to present me and my colleagues with Medal of Honor for stopping Ebola in Nigeria, Sierra Leone , Liberia and Guinea
I dedicate this to Dr Stella A Adedevor and Justina Ejelonu. You guys are the real heroes, you died for us. Adadevor stopped Sawyer . He made calls , she also made calls , pulling the right strings to stop him from plunging into the population and spreading the deadly virus. She contracted Ebola in the process and died a most painful death. It was like self sacrifice. She had organ failures , kidney shut down , multiple seizures and strokes , profuse bleeding, heart failure and later on death. She died for Nigeria. Adadevor has not been properly honored by her country where as every year politicians troop into Abuja to share national honors for doing practically nothing where as real hero’s are ignored. Nurse Justina Ejelenu worked with Stella and also contracted the disease in the line of duty .
She died without doing anything for herself or her family. No one remembers her. We arrived Abuja after 6 months of risking our lives in West Africa to stop the menace few days after Jonathan had lost the presidential election in 2015
No one paid any attention to us any longer . All the initial plans to honor us was thrown out of the window. The new regime took no interest whatsoever and till today not even a handshake from a local government chairman not to talk of monetary anything. Politicians share billions each time they are leaving office after mindless self help to the national purse . Yet those who worked for the nation are never rewarded. This regime has not as much as said a word to us talk less of recognizing our contributions. The day we arrived Sierra Leone everyone was happy , they said we were from Nigeria and we had the magic . They sent us to worse hit areas and we went to duty patriotically. We did our best and Ebola stopped . The country took the whole accolade without even saying a word to us. The African Union has casually tossed medals to us without any ceremony. I went to PH to pick up my piece from a junior staff of the state ministry of health who asked me to sign off on a piece of paper and be gone. There were only 2 persons in the room . No body bothered with me . It was even the staff who told me that some people who picked up the medal earlier had tested it and that it was not even real gold so is probably worthless. I spent my money and time to pick a piece of garbage after risking my life for Africa. I felt like a fool while leaving dejectedly. This reminds me my experience in the field. An American passed out while we were on duty and I helped to resuscitate him. He was later diagnosed of Ebola and I quarantined myself. Few days later I developed fever and noticed blood in my toilet. I asked my colleagues to send a letter to African Union that I may have contracted the deadly disease . Till today I never got any response. I stayed in self quarantine for 21 days without a word from Africa that I was fighting for. My contemporary was airlifted to USA in a matter of moments but I survived by the grace of God or share luck . Never spoken to . Never tested . Never nothing. Being African is shitty. I don’t know if am a survivor or not . I just know that my life is worth nothing. I dedicate this medal , though probably worthless to healthcare workers from Africa who died for their continent but were never appreciated or even recognized.I live in hope that one day our land shall experience the kind of leadership that would value those who sacrifice for her and reward those who make genuine efforts. For now , am just in severe pains .
God bless Africa
God bless Nigeria.

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BUHARI IS NOT AWARE - Hope For NIGERIA.

1) Buhari is not aware of the whereabouts of his WASC Certificate.

2) Buhari is not aware of where his land in PH is located.

3) Buhari is not aware that Baru illegally signed out $25 Billion and no Contract to show for the sum.

4) Buhari is not aware that Abba Kyari collected N500m bribe from MTN.

5) Buhari is not aware of the state of Aso Rock Clinic.

6) Buhari is not aware that Maina was reinstated.

7) Buhari is not aware of the $34million hidden by his aides and supporters at Orsborne building in Ikoyi. - @Hope For Nigeria.

Buhari is not aware that over N914billion is still unremitted or in pockets of his appointees in NNPC.

9) Buhari is not aware that $30million was paid for his 105 days Treatment in UK and $6million for his ear infection 3 months earlier.

10) Buhari is not aware that N1.3trillion ballot-out funds to states and LGAs from Paris club and GEJ saving was squandered or given to politicians that sponsored his election in 2015.

11) Buhari is not aware that Nigeria has lost about N1.27trillion at the Ports as duties goes to his cronies pockets, goods cleared with notes-from-above and illegal waivers to friends and party members.

12) BUHARI is not aware that majority of govt agencies and corporations are no longer using the TSA payment system introduced by his predecessor. - Hope For Nigeria

13) Buhari is not aware know that the Dollar round tripping by his aides, friends, family and CBN officials is why exchange rate is st roof top and prices of essential goods out of reach.

14) Buhari is not aware that the Secretary to Federal Govt used nearly N300million to cut grass in less than 300 metres dry open field.

15) Buhari was not aware that he over stayed in London after his medical visit. Save the young Nigerians that pursed him Home, he will still be in London.

Even those of you that are HAILING Buhari despite his failures, are in the know that, Bubu is not aware.

In fact, Buhari is not aware that he is the President of Nigeria.

And you think Buhari is aware that you are suffering? You are entirely on your own... As he is not aware.......

Nigerian nice Igbo Guy wrote of facebook :


I have a colleague that used to tell me I am different from other Igbos.. so let me drop the progression here.. it didn't turn out well.
look it always felt good when he tells me I am not like other Igbos, then he goes ahead to slander the entire Igbo race.. on a daily basis
so one day.. I asked myself, shebi when they are cutting Igbo people's head off, they will get to my turn and tell me you are different?
I told myself stop reveling in this u are different cover. there is no tribe that is perfect. so time to stop acting all politically correct.
something tells me this guy loves you because you hate your people with him or maybe because you give him that impression.. so I told him
I am Igbo, there are plenty good Igbo people as there are Hausa and Yoruba etc.. he shouted and protested. he refused to agree.
So I immediately refuted it anytime he wanted to introduce his slandering with the "you are different form the rest line" problem started.
his so called love for me turned to hate. I didn't change my character o. I only said look I am Igbo and I am not different from the rest.
Modecai told Esther, if you keep quiet, you and your fathers house will also perish. you gotta stand for something. 2 things..
win affections by claiming you are the only good Igbo in Nigeria, then join to slander Igbo. other tribes will love you. hehe
or admit you are Igbo and you love Igbo, there are bad people in Igbo and there are plenty good people in Igbo just like other tribes.
I remember plenty Hausas who sold suya and tomatoes and other stuff in my village market and don't recall hostilities towards them from anybody, go to Afor Ogbe and ask, its the capital of cattle market in south east, 2nd only to Okigwe.
sometimes y'all make it look like once a non Igbo stepped in any Igbo community, he dies the next day..
so...
I stopped being politically correct. I am Igbo, don't tell me I am different from the rest. no I am not. if you hate Igbos, then you hate me.

Just like the American Military Industrial Complex that signify the relationship that exist between government entities and defense minded companies or organization that encourage wars, there also exist in Nigeria government bodies and influential individuals that ensure that Igbo people don’t progress. They spread this hatred virus to the public and control people to be anti-Igbo in anything.
There is a massive emerging structure being natured by Nigerian system to develop this Witchcraft Industrial Complex. Why Witchcraft, you may ask, in African context witchcraft fights against the progress of their victim and it is devilish. In this case the identified victims are ndi igbo. With all the ordeals that Igbo people has been going through for the past 50 years, the entrenched Witchcraft Indusrial Complex has been busy manufacturing modified seeds of hatred. The hatred now has kept
Nigeria and Ndi igbo stranded and lost. But unlike the military complex in US, the witchcraft Industrial Complex in Nigeria gains nothing. They are holding themselves on the ground because there is an Igbo saying that whoever that is holding someone down is also holding himself down.
The Igbo people has never been comfortable in the existing Nigeria system and have proposed several solutions for progress. It is unfortunate that this grown trees of manufactured hatred has grown so big that more seeds are even germinating and Nigerians are not reasoning. That is why the system has refused to accept restructuring and other similar alternatives. Now the only available option to majority of Igbo youths who need better life is succession. They want to be independent. This wicked complex concoct various channels of thoughts that unconditionally fights any idea about the progress of ndi Igbo without gaining anything in return.


You wonder why most of the tribes in Nigeria had in mind fighting and killing to keep people they do not trust in a Union. They are bewitched. When it comes to what affects Igbo progress every other person looks away. They pretend publicly by asking questions like “What do the Igbos want " like president Buhari. Our people will repeat again and again, we want to build massive infrastructure like second, third and fourth Niger bridge without needing permission from Abuja, we want to be able to import from closer sea ports without having to come to Lagos all the time, we want to be able to determine and control our economic progress without going for permission from Abuja, We want to
know that if our governors do not perform, it is not because they do not get allocation but because they are lazy and incompetent, We do not want to make money, pay tax and some other person decides and distributes it from Abuja, what Igbos want is what has elegantly been demanded by Odumegwu Ojukwu since 1967. It has always been clear but the Witchcraft Industrial Complex keep coming up with hatred to keep Igbo people from having joy in their hearts. They have not come up with any solution to help these agenda and at the same time they want Igbos to forget their demand and enjoy emptiness of unstructured federal republic.
In African context again a witch derives great joy in deep suffering of their victims. And in this industrial complex, the joys they derive have no bounds, Igbos see it every day in Social Media and sometimes in mainstream media.
Anytime the voice of Igbos are united and loud, they set up plans to invite anarchy instead of opening a platform for dialogue for Igbo people to succeed any demand. The complex has made Igbo gathering or agenda to be against the law and rebellious. Any person that has passion for Igbo race is suppressed be it in civil service, military or even corporate organization. Because many are bewitched they refuse to understand that Igbos are blessing to Nigeria. It is evident in every corners of Nigeria, Igbo catalyze economic development in every community. At the same time the bewitched Nigerian will shout that they are ingrates, cheats, fraudulent etc.
Meanwhile Igbos are practically the greatest nationalists of all the tribes in Nigeria, they invest everywhere, they marry everywhere, they school everywhere, they are in Nigerian army, they build churches everywhere with their own money, still hated because of no good reason. They still go far amidst the hatred to represent Nigeria outside Nigeria and win medals. Get out of this Witchcraft Industrial Complex. It is killing us all, you are holding Igbos down and holding yourselves down too.

Igbos are with God, they love God and God takes care of them. You kill one thousand Igbo today God raises ten thousand people more successful than the ones you killed. You destroy their property, they build better than what you have destroyed. You stop their appointment they go outside Nigeria and get better appointment. You block their sea ports they import through other countries and bring into Nigeria. You kill them because they are Christians they still love God more. You stop them from building good houses in their state they became more comfortable than you in your state. Nigeria is backward today because of the hatred of the Igbos, it is that simple. Stop the hatred of the witchcraft and love the Igbos they are loved by God.

Just like the Dwight D. Eisenhower warned USA that the Industrial Complex may keep America in perpetual war if allowed to continues, so also another warning is going to Nigeria that the Witchcraft Industrial Complex will destroy Nigeria completely if it continues, because nothing good comes from evil. Be delivered.


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The political and economic realities of today have forced countries in different continents of the world to redefine and renegotiate their unions which gave birth to new nations. As humankind continue to evolve so do adjustments of boundaries should be allowed to continue to take place.
African countries were put together by strangers (Europeans) who knew nothing or very little about the differences that exist among Africans. It is not like they did not notice the differences but they were merely interested in their economic interest hence their putting together different group of people just to achieve their selfish interest. Several conflicts among African nations have shown that the unions put together by foreign invaders to serve their economic interest are no longer sustainable. The reason for creating a country is to better the lives of the inhabitants but when the union becomes a scourge to those it is to benefit, then there is a need to revisit such union and effect the necessary adjustments to meet the aim of having a country.
The fact that Igbos want to exit Nigeria does mean Nigeria will seize to exist, other Nigerians that love one Nigeria so much can still work to make it great. The worst disservice those who love Nigeria so much will offer Nigeria is by-force-unity. You cannot force somebody to live with you and get the best out of the person. If Igbo should remain in Nigeria it has to be by agreement not by force, as by force unity is slavery. Our people should be allowed to freely decide whether they want to remain in Nigeria or to exit Nigeria, that is the logical and reasonable thing to do to save Nigeria by those who love her so much.
Our people are becoming aware of their environment on daily basis which is fast destroying the lies that hold Nigerian captive for so long. Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, a lot of things that were thought impossible in Nigeria are beginning to happen. Before now we were told a Nigerian can never wear a bomb vest to blow himself up but it happened right before our eyes. Before now other Nigerians thought an Igboman will never close his shop for whatever but right under our nose we witnessed as they closed their shops for weeks to protest. Before now we were told Nigerians can never commit suicide because of hardship as they are perceived to be resilient in nature but when Nigerians were stretched far beyond their elastic limits the unthinkable started to happen and we are seeing our very own committing suicide left and right in different forms because of hardship. We should understand it is human nature to think and do the unthinkable when pushed to the wall. There is still time to save ourselves from the most dangerous unthinkable that is waiting to happen. Whether we like it or not Nigeria is a time bomb that will explode in no distant time.
We have witnessed the dissolution of most powerful and civilized nations of the world. That you do not want to hear about disintegration doesn't mean it won't happen, it's better we face reality and prepare for the inevitable. If Europe was able to redrew her map along homogeneous boundaries, nothing will stop Africa from doing same to experience growth and developments. Stop sitting on the fence, stand up to be counted for it is your future and that of your generations to come.

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FG should open up channels of business for the South East to Reduce or End the Agitation if they wish.


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THE TRUTH IS STILL VERY BITTER TILL TODAY BUT STILL, ONLY THE TRUTH CAN SET YOU FREE.



I am deeply and humbly constrained to present you with this letter. For many years, indeed throughout my mature life, I had been a proud but disinterested admirer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and her peoples. The history of Your Majesty’s country is replete with heroism, discoveries which were near miracles, and institutions of higher learning of the most outstanding character and achievement. Britain, though insular and small in size and capacity, had centuries ago proved conclusively, to the world that for any community and nation to reach the acme of greatness and respectability, it is not quantity that counts but quality and the type of people who make up the nation.
British Christians had the privilege and honour of evangelizing not only a good part of Africa, my own continent, but also a greater part of the rest of the world. Her missionaries, men and women, left home and kindred and comfortable life, to spread Christianity far and wide in areas of the world where, for want of a better description, life was anything but civilized in the Western sense of the word, civilization. They endured lack of scientifically purified water, electric or gas light. They trekked long miles of single-file roads, endured our moist heat and drenching rains, the nuisance of mosquitoes, and sand flies and other indigenous African insects. In the earlier days of missionary venture, they imported tons of tinned foodstuffs and cared nothing for their lives so long as they could preach the Gospel and its Good News, heal the sick, and bring education and enlightenment to the people. The result of this effective humanitarian service, supported financially, morally, and prayerfully by the Churches way back in their homeland, has born exceedingly abundant fruit, and for us in Biafra (formerly Eastern Nigeria), their work has, by grace of God, made our homeland as much a Christian country as any other reputed countries of the world.
Despite annoying treatment meted to me and my fellow African students now and again in certain quarters, I was highly impressed with the religious life of the people of Britain, particularly in Scotland, where I lived and studied in the University of St. Andrews for seven years in one of the coldest parts of the United Kingdom. Altogether, I resided in Britain for ten long years. And having seen their homeland and lived in this Christian atmosphere in which they grew up, the self-denial and self-sacrifice of Christian Missionary came home to me very forcibly, I drew much inspiration from their splendid example, and my understanding and realization of the full meaning and significance of the Christian life dawned on me with great sense of joy and thankfulness.
After taking my medical degrees, therefore, I offered my services to the Foreign Mission Committee (now the Overseas Council) of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh.
I joined the Church of Scotland Medical Service, Calabar Mission, Nigeria, and served the mission and its offspring, the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, from February 1, 1936 to January 31, 1967. With the consent and approval of the Overseas Council, I was on leave of absence without pay during the last five years, December 1960, to January 1965, of my missionary service, while I was Governor of Eastern Nigeria. As the only Nigerian among a group of some seventy European Missionaries for twenty five years, the going was in the main, stiff and at various times, I felt most frustrated and unhappy.
For although Missionaries inspired me without knowing it themselves, I regret to say that, by and large, they did not encourage me. Such a situation did not bother me, however, because I was inwardly happy to serve my people in this unique capacity, and I was not going to quit, come weal, come woe, until, like other missionaries, I had served my turn for thirty years or reached the age of sixty years. If European missionaries, I argued within me, could leave their well-ordered homeland and ease of life, more or less, and where they could make a name for themselves academically or otherwise, and came to my homeland where amenities of life in the European background were hardly existent, I did not see any reason why I, an African, could not follow in their footsteps and serve my own people in my own country under conditions which called for naked hardship and demanded much self denial and self sacrifice.
In 1949 New Year Honours Awards,
Your Majesty’s revered and late father, His Majesty King George the sixth, graciously conferred on me the honour to be an Officer of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E) for services to the Church and State. Again, in the New Year Honours, 1951, he conferred on me the dignity to be a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.B.E) for selfless service to the Church and my country. I happened to be in London at this time as a special guest of the British Council, and when I was invited by a Buckingham Palace Official to present myself before His Majesty to receive the insignia and accolate of Knighthood, I begged permission to have them conferred on me on my return home to Nigeria.
I did receive the insignia and certificate at the hands of His Excellency the then Governor of Nigeria, Sir John Macpherson, but I had the unique distinction and singular privilege of receiving the accolade from Your Majesty’s august person during your Majesty’s Royal and memorable visit to Nigeria in February, 1956. On the attainment and independence of Nigeria and sovereignty by Nigeria on October 1, 1960, Your Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint me as Governor of Eastern Nigeria within the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the recommendation of the Honourable Premier of Eastern Nigeria with the assent of his Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In August 1962, Your Majesty conferred on me the dignity of being a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.).
For these great honours and special recognitions, I am humbly grateful to Your Majesty and Your Majesty's Britannic Government. They are a happy reflection of the importance of Africa and her people before God and man. Howbeit, I must renounce all of them at this time. I do so to register the strongest protest at my command against Your Majesty's Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for supplying military equipment and arms to Nigeria which has waged a senseless and futile war of aggression against my country, the Republic of Biafra. My objection and protest are directed solely and entirely to the British Government because I believe that the staunch British friends of Africa, particularly the CHURCH, and informed British public opinion will deplore this unkindly act of the British Government to the Republic of Biafra. With the highest sense of responsibility, therefore, and bearing clearly in my own mind the moral issues which are at stake, and my own stand thereat, I return the insignia and paraphernalia of my title to Your Majesty’s Britannic Government through the British Deputy High Commissioner who is resident here in Enugu - the capital city of the Republic of Biafra.
[4:01:18 AM] Andy Peter Andy:
During the months of May, July, August, and September, 1966, Northern Nigerian soldiers and civilians planned and committed the most atrocious crimes against Eastern Nigerians—now citizens of the Republic of Biafra. Sadistically, brutally and in cold blood, they murdered and slaughtered thousands of my brothers and sisters who were then living in Northern Nigeria and other parts of the former and defunct Federal Republic of Nigeria. They killed innocent children, helpless women, and defenseless men without any reason or rhyme. They entered churches and hospitals and slaughtered them in cold blood. And most unbelievably yet only too true, they massacred women in actual LABOUR and their unborn children. They plundered, looted, assaulted and raped women and burnt down the homes of Easterners and left them penniless.
The most painful and unsoldierly act of all was that these Northern Nigerian soldiers killed their superior officers, including and especially His Excellency the Military Governor of Western Nigeria, Lt. Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, and his guest and comrade, His Excellency, the Head of Supreme Military Council and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the former Federal Republic of Nigeria, Major-General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, both of them of blessed memory. On July 29, 1966, they were kidnapped by Northern Nigerian soldiers and ruthlessly killed after torturing them. It must be stated here that the late Major-General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, an Eastern Nigerian at that time, went all out to build up ONE UNITED AND STRONG NIGERIA through a unitary Government Administration, but paradoxically and ironically, he met a cruel and untimely death for that very reason. It is very strange, therefore, that Nigeria should be futilely waging a war of aggression against Biafra in her impossible bid to force Biafra back into this very same union—One Nigeria from which she had been so purposely and systematically forced out.
Be that as it may, all kith and kin fled Northern Nigeria, Western Nigeria, and Lagos and returned to their homeland of Eastern Nigeria, the only place they knew they could have protection. In the process, Eastern Nigeria was left to look after and cater for at least two million refugees, and she has done and is doing so with commendable achievement. Eastern Nigeria did not retaliate in any way, for we do not kill strangers within our gates, and being humble and sensitive Christians, we refused to commit murder, contrary to the commandment of God, particularly as we believe that two wrongs can never make a right. Northern Nigerians in Eastern Nigeria were therefore collected together and escorted safely by train across the border to their own section of Nigeria.
In the succeeding months, the Hausa/Fulani controlled Lagos Government of Nigeria purposely, directly, and inexorably forced Eastern Nigeria out of the Federation, and our Military Governor with advice and consent of out Consultative Assembly had no other choice but to declare Eastern Nigeria a free, independent and sovereign state to be known as the Republic of Biafra. This happy and historical occasion took place on May 30. On July 6th, Nigeria attacked Biafra in her mad wish to force Biafra to return to the Nigeria federation. Having killed 30,000 of us in their land and seized our property worth millions of pound sterling, they have now come to kill more of us in our own homes and make the rest of us slaves to the Hausa/Fulani Feudalists and Moslems.
The people of Biafra are, therefore, fighting a war of LIBERATION AND SURVIVAL. We adamantly refuse to be colonized by the Hausa/Fulanis of Northern Nigeria or any other people in the world. Moreover it is an ardent desire of the Hausa/Fulani and Moslem Northern Nigeria to subjugate Biafra and kill Christianity in our country.
Your Majesty, the British officials in Nigeria are fully aware of all these. They know that we are injured and deeply grieved people and had been cruelly treated by our erstwhile fellow citizens of Federal Republic of Nigeria. The British officials not only knew the crux of the matter, but they also encouraged Northern Nigeria to carry out and execute their nefarious plan against us. They are angry with Biafra because Biafra categorically refused to remain as part of the Nigeria federation and political unit only to be trampled upon, discriminated against and hated, ruthlessly exploited and denied her rights and privileges, and slaughtered whenever it suited the whims and caprices of the favoured people of Northern Nigeria. To add insult to injury, Your Majesty’s Britannic Government, instead of being neutral in our quarrels or finding ways and means to mediate and bring peace to the two countries, has now taken it upon herself to supply military aid to Nigeria to help them defeat and subjugate Biafra.
It is simply staggering for a Christian country like Britain to help a Moslem country militarily to crush another Christian country like Biafra. This is just too much for me, Your Gracious Majesty, this act of unfriendliness and treachery by the British Government towards the people of Republic of Biafra who, as Eastern Nigerians, had so much regard for Britain and British people.
In the circumstance, Your Majesty, I no longer wish to wear the garb of the British Knighthood. British fairplay, British justice, and the Englishman’s word of honour which Biafra loved so much and cherished have become meaningless to Biafrans in general and to me in particular. Christian Britain has shamelessly let down Christian Biafra.
I love the Republic of Biafra very dearly and pray that, by grace of God, she may remain and continue to grow and live and always act like a truly Christian country for all times.
I am, Your Majesty
Yours Most Respectfully,
(AKANU IBIAM)

http://worldigbocongress..com.ng/2017/04/the-protest-letter-of-dr-francis-akanu.html

ImperialYoruba:


This is example of how Ibo lack of historical knowledge becomes embarrassment. A spare parts dealer will see this and begin spreading false news that NCNC was created and named by Zik.

Yes every spare part dealer, every transport owner, every estate developer, every travel agent, every importer and exporter knows and will keep spreading the message that Zik and Herbert Macaulay are the Nationalist unlike Awolowo who introduced ethnic politics that has brought us to this mess. Just allow them to spread the news but don't go destroying their shops and property because you spread yours both on social media and on mainstream media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Nigeria_and_the_Cameroons

"Many of those who saw Utomi and Soludo as their darlings (that were "possible candidates for the presidency" have started to attack them. Why? They dared to ask that the law courts be respected with the release of Nnamdi Kanu and that it was unconstitutional to kill unarmed protesters. For that, they have dropped from "nationalists" to tribalists in the reckoning of some people.
The cross of the Igbo man in Nigeria is that for him to be seen as a nationalist, he must keep quiet when injustice is meted out to his people or he must call his ethnic group names repeatedly. Once he insults his ethnic group or kinsmen, he is seen as a detribalised patriot.
Others can defend their ethnic groups but an Igbo man dares not do it.
Even as a former head of state, Buhari can lead a team of Fulanis to Oyo State Government House to ask Lam Adesina, "Why are your people killing MY people?" Buhari can warn Jonathan that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North. Buhari can declare publicly that he would not rest until sharia is spread across the whole nation. None of such would make him seen as a tribalist or a religious bigot. None of such can prevent him from being voted in as a president who loves Nigeria. Imagine if a prospective presidential candidate from Igboland said and did all that.
Yar'Adua approved sharia in Katsina State as governor, yet people did not see him as unacceptable to be president. Imagine if the same were done by an Igbo governor.
In the First Republic, Zik was the most nationalistic of his contemporaries and led the fight against colonialism. He named his party National Council of Nigerian Citizens while Ahmadu Bello named his party Northern People's Congress and opposed the call for early independence, the climax being the North walking out of parliament in 1953 when Enahoro (a Zikist then) moved a motion for independence.
Zik founded a university and named it University of Nigeria. Awo founded a university and called it University of Ife. Ahmadu Bello founded a university and named it University of Northern Nigeria. Yet Ahmadu Bello's party that was named NORTHERN People's Congress was found "nationalistic and detribalised" to rule Nigeria.
I have been a victim of such double standards on many occasions. When I write lovely things about other ethnic groups, I am called a detribalised and nationalistic Nigerian, but once I say something positive about the Igbos, I become a tribalist.
But borrowing from Soyinka, let me state that the man dies in him who keeps quiet when injustice is meted out to his kinsmen for fear of being called a tribalist. Injustice is injustice no matter who is the victim."


Copied from Freddie I. Ude

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(a)Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna accepted in the 8 Ivy League universities (b) Benjamin Aghalieku Arinze, has floated an airline in Swaziland (ch)Cheirika Ukogu, first ever Nigerian Rower in Olympic (d) Ifeanyi Uba, recognized for his capacity building in sport that led Ifeanyi Uba FC to National football FA champion (e) Mikel Obi, captained and co-sponsored Under 23 Eagles to Olympics, to win bronze medal in football (f) Ike Ekweremadu, highest placed political figure in Nigeria of Igbo extract that fought very hard to remain deputy senate president (g) Nneka Ogwumike, the most valuable player Player Women Basketball (WNBA) of the year 2016
(gb) Peter Obi, got the country aroused after his Independence day speech 2016. He spoke on governance and showed how he managed to overcome the culture of waste through his personal prudence (gh) Nnamdi Kanu, freedom fighter that has made Igbo problems become an International issue (gw) Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed a member of the international advisory panel of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). (h) Sandie Okoro has been appointed World Bank Group Senior Vice President and General Counsel (i) Rangers International Football Club of Enugu won Nigeria Premier League 2016 after 32 years. Rangers International is the only Nigerian division one football team that has never been relegated (I) Bennet Omalu , a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players (j) Willie Obiano, current governor of Anambra state. He has led Anambra state to a very high Internal Generated Revenue and has managed recession in Anambra with Tax Relief Programs, Special Intervention Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises. (k) Lucy Ejike, Flora Ugwunwa,Petit lauritta Onye, Roland Ezuruike, Ndidi Nwosu and Josephine Orji, they all broke records in the last Paralympics in Brasil 2016. (kp) Harrison Chinedu has broken the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance traveled with a football on the head. (kw)Innocent Chukwuma, is still the first and only car manufacturing plant (Innoson Motors) owner in Africa. Innoson motors had produced different range of cars in 2016 (l) Njideka Akunyili Crosby has set a new record for the artist at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art (m) Obiageli Ezekwesili, the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign group (n) Prof Maduike Ezeibe proved efficacy of Nano-medicine in HIV/AIDS cure.

Congratulations to all, ndi Igbo ibe m daalu nu


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(a)Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna accepted in the 8 Ivy League universities (b) Benjamin Aghalieku Arinze, has floated an airline in Swaziland (ch)Cheirika Ukogu, first ever Nigerian Rower in Olympic (d) Ifeanyi Uba, recognized for his capacity building in sport that led Ifeanyi Uba FC to National football FA champion (e) Mikel Obi, captained and co-sponsored Under 23 Eagles to Olympics, to win bronze medal in football (f) Ike Ekweremadu, highest placed political figure in Nigeria of Igbo extract that fought very hard to remain deputy senate president (g) Nneka Ogwumike, the most valuable player Player Women Basketball (WNBA) of the year 2016
(gb) Peter Obi, got the country aroused after his Independence day speech 2016. He spoke on governance and showed how he managed to overcome the culture of waste through his personal prudence (gh) Nnamdi Kanu, freedom fighter that has made Igbo problems become an International issue (gw) Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed a member of the international advisory panel of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). (h) Sandie Okoro has been appointed World Bank Group Senior Vice President and General Counsel (i) Rangers International Football Club of Enugu won Nigeria Premier League 2016 after 32 years. Rangers International is the only Nigerian division one football team that has never been relegated (I) Bennet Omalu , a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players (j) Willie Obiano, current governor of Anambra state. He has led Anambra state to a very high Internal Generated Revenue and has managed recession in Anambra with Tax Relief Programs, Special Intervention Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises. (k) Lucy Ejike, Flora Ugwunwa,Petit lauritta Onye, Roland Ezuruike, Ndidi Nwosu and Josephine Orji, they all broke records in the last Paralympics in Brasil 2016. (kp) Harrison Chinedu has broken the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance traveled with a football on the head. (kw)Innocent Chukwuma, is still the first and only car manufacturing plant (Innoson Motors) owner in Africa. Innoson motors had produced different range of cars in 2016 (l) Njideka Akunyili Crosby has set a new record for the artist at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art (m) Obiageli Ezekwesili, the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign group (n) Prof Maduike Ezeibe proved efficacy of Nano-medicine in HIV/AIDS cure.





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